The problem with building gc on HP/UX did turn out to be trivial, just a compiler switch.
What's the procedure for submitting changes to the baseline? Diffs to the list, use the "Report a Bug" at bugs.plt-scheme.org or is there a maintainer that I should contact?
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From: Jordan Henderson <jordan.henderson at earthlink.net>
Sent: Jun 16, 2004 10:23 AM
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Subject: [plt-scheme] The PLT/Boehm GC
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I attempted to build mzscheme 207 on an HP/UX machine and I'm getting some compile error. I was surprised by this as Boehm works for HP and does research with the collector involving gcj on HP/UX, so
I downloaded the most recent GC release from Hans Boehm's site:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
and found that it does compile cleanly on HP/UX 11. Then, I found that the gc included with mzscheme has a number of modifications not in the latest versions of Hans Boehm's gc.
Does anyone know if the mzscheme-specific modifications are required for the functioning of the mzscheme system, or , are they mostly performance related?
The compilation problem with the gc included with the plt distribution is probably easy to overcome, but I'm wondering if there's not a better option.
Thanks.
-Jordan Henderson